| Calais |
| The steamboat "Queen" leaving Calais, presumably for England - a postcard from 1918. |
| A 1926 postcard of the Boulevard Pasteur. |
| The Theatre and the Boulevard Gambetta. |
| I've lost count of the number of day trips - and longer - we've taken to Calais, to stock up on booze, cheese, olive oil etc - and just to enjoy the town and the atmosphere, and of course to have a decent meal !! |
| This postcard was mailed in 1919. |
| Another view of the Casino and Beach. |
| The market in front of the Town Hall. |
| A 1919 postcard of the Monument aux Enfants du Calaisis and the Boulevard jacquard. |
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| No date for this postcard of the Market in the Place d'Armes. |
| Another postcard showing the Place d'Armes. |
| A great 1907 postcard of the Boulevard International. |
| The Gare Maritime. |
| Avenue de la Mer. |
| The Boulevards Pasteur and Jacquard. |
| Two more views of the Casino and the Beach. |
| The Hotel de Ville, built about 1885 - but see the postcard above for the "other" Town Hall. |
| The Theatre and Jacquard's monument. Calais owes much of its world wide renown in the lace industry to Joseph Jacquard(1752-1834), inventor of a mechanism consisting of a programmed reproduction of a perforated card which could transfer complicated designs to lace. A statue in the memory of him by the sculptor Marius Roussel, was erected in 1910. |
| Another excellent view of the Place d'Armes. |
| Another excellent view of the Casino and people on the beach. |
| Another postcard of the "Queen". |
| postcards of the past |
| The Rue de la Citadelle and the Belfry. |
| Le Quai de la Colonne. |
| The beach in the early years of the 20th Century - look at the Bathing Machines ! |
| Fishermen repairing their nets. |
| The Rue Royale - a great postcard which was mailed in 1915. |
| An interesting postcard, although not a very good image. "Machinerie installee sur les falaises du Blanc-Nez pour le percement du Tunnel qui devait partir de cet endroit pour aboutir aux Cotes de Douvre (Angleterre - 1909." Roughly translated this says "Machinery installed on the cliffs of Blanc-Nez to dig a tunnel which should start from this place and come up in Dover (England)." |
| A couple of submarines in Calais harbour - no date for this one. |